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Milo Yiannopoulos brings us this disturbing tidbit:
A gay man from Chechnya, Russia has spoken out, providing some troubling details related to the the majority-Muslim province's effort to eliminate the LGBTQ community entirely.
According to Metro.co.uk's Charles White, many gay men living in Chechnya fear the government will "eliminate" them by the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
The government is reportedly hoarding[sic] the gay men into "concentration camps" where some may have been killed.
According to Breitbart, the Agence France-Presse (AFP) spoke with several gay victims of oppression who have managed to escape Chechnya. What they've revealed is that not only are gay men in the region afraid of persecution from authority.
They're also scared of "honor killings" by family members looking to punish them for shaming their family name. This fear follows the individuals even after they've left Chechnya, where the bulk of the atrocities appears to be occurring.
"If any of my relatives realize I'm gay, they won't hesitate a minute before killing me," said one 28-year-old victim according to the outlet. "And if they don't do it, they will get killed themselves for failing to uphold the family honor."
[Ed. note: See also this fascinating background article on the apparent cause of this recent pogrom in Chechnya. Hat tip to n1 for providing this link.]
I know it's not our usual fare but some things just need brought out in the open; see what Iran is up to.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @09:14PM (1 child)
If anyone had doubts as to what Muslims will do once they get in power. Have a deep study in to Chechnya!
Er, no.
Chechnya has been brutally repressed by Putin, for, you guessed it, oil.
It run by a puppet dictator, who makes a show of defying putin but the reality is he needs putins backing (and putin needs a reliable puppet).
This is about repression and the resource curse [wikipedia.org] more than it is about muslims, who are pretty chill in the largest muslim country in the world - Indonesia).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 27 2017, @05:09AM
Your perception of Indonesia is inaccurate. Indonesia only gained its independence in 1950 after which it was taken over by a Islamic extremist who, along with his half dozen wives, engaged in mass murder [wikipedia.org] of "communist sympathizers, ethnic Chinese and alleged leftists" in 1965. The death toll was in the millions and that of course should not let us forget the mass imprisonments, torture, rape, and so on.
His successor was a more secular Muslim, but in his decline he began promoting and appointing fundamentalist Muslims to various government roles to try to appease growing unrest among more radical Muslims. It failed. He's out, they're still in. To this today Indonesia continues its decline with things like women's rights increasingly being thrown out the window. You have various regions enacting things like laws requiring all women wear the burqa. Groups like Hizb ut-Tahrir [wikipedia.org] Indonesia are also thriving. They're a radical Islam group whose goal is to reestablish the Islamic state. Indonesia is headed down the path to becoming the next Saudi Arabia within a couple of decades if nothing changes.